PyCon 2019 in Cleveland was an amazing experience! A big Thank You to all of the organizers and volunteers who made it happen! At the link above you’ll find a list of tweets from the conference to give you a sense of what it was like there. Also check out the talk recordings on YouTube.

“I did not enjoy at all when the central developers were sending me hints on Twitter questioning my authority and the wisdom of my decisions, instead of telling me in my face and having an honest debate about things.”

“You’ve run your batch process with your scientific model, and after hours and hours it spit out a result. And the result is wrong.” Itamar’s article has some valuable tips on how to debug this type of situation in your own Python programs.

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This post discusses some of the current profiling tools and techniques for Python apps: “The official documentation has a whole section on the subject, but we shall go beyond that and have a look at some alternative solutions, especially in the area of sampling profilers.” Nice read!

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“How could ancient Sumerian wheel builders have calculated the ideal shape without modern computers and software? We may never know. Luckily, with today’s technology, it is relatively easy to rediscover the wheel’s optimal shape.” ;-)

Pykka is a Python implementation of the actor model. The actor model introduces some simple rules to control the sharing of state and cooperation between execution units, which makes it easier to build concurrent applications.